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D&C Studios designs and builds websites, portals and web applications in Mumbai for teams across Mumbai, Navi Mumbai and Thane, and in 11 countries beyond. We plan the pages, shape the words and write the code, then keep the site quick, secure and easy to find for years.
3x
faster Ekeeda page loads, 6.2s to 1.9s
Zero
downtime over the Ekeeda cutover weekend
Doubled
Creating Abilities volunteer enquiries in six months
Where it usually starts
Almost nobody asks for a website. They ask why the current one is not doing its job.
It looks dated, but the real cost is quieter: visitors who cannot find the answer, forms nobody trusts, and a sales team sending PDFs instead of links.
It feels fine on the office laptop. On a mid range phone over mobile data it takes six seconds, and most visitors have gone before the first image loads.
Every edit breaks something else, the plugins argue with each other, and the one person who understood it all left last year.
Applications, bookings, renewals or approvals handled over email. It works until the volume doubles, and then it quietly costs someone a full time job.
What we do
From a focused company website to a portal thousands of people log into every week.
Sites with a clear job: help the right visitor understand you, trust you and take the next step. Words and design are developed together, never around placeholder text.
Member portals, learning platforms, booking tools and admin systems for the work your existing tools cannot handle. We will also tell you when a good existing product will do.
The right platform for how your team publishes: static for speed and security, WordPress for frequent editing, headless when one set of content feeds several channels.
Core Web Vitals, technical SEO and WCAG 2.2 AA are part of the build, checked every sprint rather than patched in the final week.
An old site is not a problem to be deleted. It is a map. We inventory every URL, move content with care and redirect the rest, so the rankings you earned survive the move.
Hosting, monitoring, updates, backups and small improvements under one plan, from a team that began by keeping other people's websites online.
The Ampersand Method, applied
Six phases, each with a designer and an engineer in it. Once the build begins, you can click a working staging site every Friday.
How the method worksWho visits, what they need to decide, and what the site must do for the business, agreed as goals you can measure.
Content, analytics, search and systems audited, every existing URL listed, and a costed scope with the platform choice explained.
Sitemap, wireframes and visual design developed with real copy, while the engineers plan the architecture, CMS and integrations.
Two week sprints, a staging site you can use, automated tests and performance budgets checked on every change.
Speed, security and accessibility checks, redirects, analytics, editor training and a rehearsed, uneventful go-live.
Monitoring, updates, search and conversion improvements, and a quarterly look at what the site should do next.
Proof
A nonprofit that needed to be understood at a glance, and an education business that could not pause while its platform changed.
All workD&C Studio's website development team far exceeded my expectations on every front. The end product is a beautiful website that embodies who we are as a company. Every person I worked with at D&C was knowledgeable, creative, prompt and personable.
Tools we trust
How we engage
Focused business websites usually start around ₹3.5 lakh and take 6 to 10 weeks. Portals and web applications begin with a Discovery Sprint, then a costed build. Every launch can move straight into a Care & Grow plan, and agencies can work with us under their own name.
A good website makes the next decision easier. A visitor should understand who you are within seconds, trust what they see and know exactly what to do next. Visual character matters, but it only works when the structure and the words are pulling their weight. That is where we start, and it is why a website at D&C Studios is planned, written, designed and engineered by one team.
Before any design, we list the people who arrive, where they come from and what they are trying to find out. Those questions become the sitemap and the order of every page. We write, or shape, the content alongside the design, so no layout depends on placeholder text that never gets replaced. For Creating Abilities, a disability inclusion nonprofit with a great deal to say, the design work was mostly deciding what a visitor needed first and what could wait. Volunteer enquiries doubled in six months, and the site now draws visitors from more than 40 countries.
We recommend the platform after we understand your team, not before. A static site built with Astro is often the fastest and most secure choice for a focused marketing site. WordPress makes sense when a non-technical team publishes every week. Custom development belongs where the workflow demands it: portals, renewals, bookings, certification. We explain the trade-offs in writing, including what each option will cost to run in year three, because the cheapest build is rarely the cheapest website.
Performance budgets, technical SEO, structured data and WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility are checked in every sprint, not saved for the final week. We test on a mid range Android phone over a patchy connection, because that is how many of your visitors will meet you for the first time. When we rebuilt the learner experience for Ekeeda and moved it to the cloud, page loads fell from 6.2 seconds to 1.9, and the cutover weekend passed with zero downtime.
If you already have a site, it holds years of links, rankings and habits. We inventory every URL, keep what ranks, redirect what moves and watch search data closely for 90 days after launch. Our website rebuild checklist walks through the same steps we follow, so you can hold any team to them, including us.
We learned this trade by keeping websites alive. Before D&C was a studio, the founders ran a hosting company, which meant renewals, SSL certificates and the occasional panicked call on a Sunday morning. That habit never left. Most sites we build move straight into a care plan with monitoring, updates and a quarterly review, run by the same people who built them. When a site needs a proper home, our cloud and hosting team looks after the infrastructure underneath it.
If your website is ready for its next chapter, tell us about it. A partner will reply within one working day.
FAQ
A focused business website with us usually starts around ₹3.5 lakh; portals and web applications cost more and are scoped in a Discovery Sprint. Hosting, domain, email and licences often add ₹2,000 to ₹15,000 a month, with care plans on top. Our website cost guide breaks it down in INR, AED and GBP.
A focused business website usually takes 6 to 10 weeks from the first workshop to launch; web applications take three to six months. AI helps us draft code, test more and prepare content faster, which trims the build. It does not shorten the slowest parts: decisions, approvals and gathering real content. Those depend on both of us.
Neither wins by default. Search engines reward fast, well structured pages with useful content, and both can deliver that. WordPress suits teams that publish often and want familiar editing. A custom or static build suits sites where speed, security and unusual features matter more. We explain the trade-offs for your team before recommending either, and no commission rides on the answer.
A well built Next.js or Astro site is usually faster out of the box, because pages can be pre-rendered and served close to the visitor with very little JavaScript. A carefully built WordPress site with caching and a lean theme can be quick too. Most slow WordPress sites are slow because of heavy themes and plugins, not because of WordPress itself.
Webflow suits a small marketing team that wants visual control, hosting included and few integrations. WordPress suits larger content programmes, several languages, custom workflows and teams who want to own their hosting. The two differ more over three years than in year one, so we compare the total cost of ownership, not just the first invoice.
Usually it is oversized images, too much JavaScript, slow hosting or third party scripts such as chat widgets and trackers. Core Web Vitals are Google's measures of real visitor experience: how quickly the main content appears, how fast the page responds to a tap, and how much the layout jumps. For Ekeeda we took page loads from 6.2 seconds to 1.9.
It depends on what care means for you. Basic hosting, updates and backups cost little. A proper plan adds monitoring, security fixes, performance checks, a set number of support hours and response times you can hold us to. Our Care & Grow plans are priced monthly, with starting points on how we partner. We have been keeping websites alive since 2018.
Yes, and much of our work sits there: member portals, learning and certification platforms, admin tools and systems that connect to CRM, payments and legacy software. For the NABARD Employees' Co-operative Credit Society we built a portal that let members check balances and renew fixed deposits online, while their trusted core system stayed in place.
Or the one that does not exist yet. A partner reads every brief and replies within one working day.
